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Plains Vizcachas Biology and Evolution of a Peculiar Neotropical Caviomorph Rodent
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Plains Vizcachas [electronic resource] : Biology and Evolution of a Peculiar Neotropical Caviomorph Rodent / edited by Luciano Luis Rasia, Claudio Gustavo Barbeito, Francisco Acuña.
ISBN
9783031494871
Edition
1st ed. 2024.
Publication
Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland : Imprint: Springer, 2024.
Physical Description
1 online resource (XIV, 386 p.) 1 illus.
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Summary
The plains vizcacha (Lagostomus maximus) is a remarkable rodent of the Neotropic given several peculiar aspects of its biology, some of them quite unique among rodents or even among mammals. This book gathers specialists studying plains vizcachas from very different approaches, including paleontology, systematics, morphology, physiology, development and conservation. It is divided in two Parts, 1) Evolutionary History, and 2) Morphology, Development and Physiology. It will surely be a required reading for any researcher working with caviomorph rodents, mastozoology of the Neotropics or internal anatomy and physiology of mammals.
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Language
English
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April 10, 2024
Contents
Part I: Evolutionary History
Chapter 1: Two hundred years of studies on plains vizcachas
Chapter 2: Pan-Chinchillidae, a once diverse clade
Chapter 3: The fossil record of Lagostomus: a 10 million years story
Chapter 4: Morphological variation in the cranium of Lagostomus maximus along its geographic distribution
Chapter 5: Genetic variation across Lagostomus maximus' geographical distribution in Argentina
Chapter 6: The chancy history of a supposedly vanished South American rodent, Lagostomus crassus, with remarks on recent extinctions in caviomorphs
Chapter 7: Use of the vizcacha (Lagostomus maximus) by indigenous societies in the Pampas ecoregion (Argentina)
Chapter 8: From pest to vulnerable species: combining ecological and behavioural knowledge for the conservation and management of Lagostomus maximus
Chapter 9: Plains vizcacha endoparasites: an exploration of diversity, health and ecology
Part II: Morphology, Development and Physiology
Chapter 10: Skull ontogeny and sexual dimorphism
Chapter 11: Morphophysiological characteristics of the female reproductive system
Chapter 12: Poly-implantation and embryonic death
Chapter 13: Placentation and placenta
Chapter 14: Neuroanatomy and brain histological atlas of the South American plains vizcacha
Chapter 15: Post-implantation embryo development in the South American plains vizcacha, Lagostomus maximus (Rodentia, Caviomorpha)
Chapter 16: Reproductive neuroendocrinology of the female South American plains vizcacha, Lagostomus maximus
Chapter 17: Synchronization of the pineal and pituitary morphophysiology by photoperiodic environmental signals
Chapter 18: Histological changes in the male reproductive system during the annual reproductive cycle
Chapter 19: Histological and histochemical characteristics of the intestinal tract: Morpho-functional specializations to herbivory.
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